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Viral Production & Use

Biosafety

Requestor is responsible for compliance with
their institution's biosafety regulations.
Lentivirus is generally considered BSL-2. AAV is
generally considered BSL-1, but may require
BSL-2 handling depending on the insert.
Biosafety Guide

Resource Information

Viral Quality Control

Quality Control:

Addgene ensures high quality viral vectors by optimizing and standardizing production protocols and performing rigorous quality control (QC) (see a list of our QC assays). The specific QC assays performed varies for each viral lot. To learn which specific QC assays were performed on your lot, please contact us.

Titer: the exact titer of your sample will be reported on the tube. The titer you see listed on this page is the guaranteed minimum titer. See how titers are measured.

Addgene Comments

These plasmids were created by your colleagues. Please acknowledge the
Principal Investigator, cite the article in which the plasmids were described,
and include Addgene in the Materials and Methods of your future publications.